System and method for monitoring a communications network
First Claim
1. In a communication network, a method, comprising:
- collecting data about signals in the communication network, the data collected at a plurality of interface points in the communication network;
storing the collected data in a memory in a computing environment; and
performing an analysis of the data using a communication system analysis program running in the computing environment to determine the quality of signals corresponding to the collected data.
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Abstract
A system and method directed to testing various communication signals and related components in a communications network. In one embodiment of the invention, a first set of data about a signal is collected when the signal is at an origin point in the communications network. Further, a second set of data about the signal is collected when the signal is at a destination point in the communications network. These two snapshots of the signal in the system can then be analyzed to determine a quality measurement based on a comparison of the first set of data and the second set of data. With such a testing method and system, various signals throughout a communications network can be tested at analyzed at any point n the system and trouble spots or high traffic areas in the communications network can be identified more quickly.
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25 Claims
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1. In a communication network, a method, comprising:
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collecting data about signals in the communication network, the data collected at a plurality of interface points in the communication network;
storing the collected data in a memory in a computing environment; and
performing an analysis of the data using a communication system analysis program running in the computing environment to determine the quality of signals corresponding to the collected data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 6)
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7. A communication system, comprising:
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a plurality of distributed data acquisition interfaces operable to interface with a plurality of communication paths in a communication network such that signals passing through the plurality of communication paths are monitored; and
a computing environment coupled with each distributed data acquisition interface, the computing environment having a program running thereon, the program including;
a signal analysis module operable to receive transmissions from each of the plurality of distributed data acquisition interfaces, the transmissions comprise data about the respective monitored signals in the communication path to which each distributed data acquisition interface corresponds;
a call trace module operable to assimilate the received transmissions and to manipulate the data contained in the received transmissions;
a signal quality measurement module operable to determine a signal quality based at least some of the data about the signals passing through the plurality of communication paths; and
an integration module operable to interpret the signal quality measurement. - View Dependent Claims (5, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions wherein the computer-executable instructions are operable to:
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receive data about a plurality of signals passing through the plurality of communication paths in a communication network;
format the received data into a format suitable for use in a call trace module;
assimilate the formatted data into groups organized by the data'"'"'s correspondence to a particular call in which each signal is associated;
determine the quality of at least one signal based on a comparison of the data about the signal to the data about another signal, wherein each of the two signals correspond to the same call; and
integrating the determined quality into a format suitable to presented to a user. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. In a communications network, a method comprising:
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collecting a first set of data about a signal when the signal is at an origin point in the communications network;
collecting a second set of data about the signal when the signal is at a destination point in the communications network; and
determining a quality measurement based on a comparison of the first set of data and the second set of data. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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